[lbo-talk] Golden age of satire?

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 15 21:26:00 PDT 2004



>From: "Michael Dawson" <MDawson at pdx.edu>
>
>Parker and Stone have said they would be Republicans, if they cared about
>politics. They are mostly just nihilists. Some of their stuff is funny,
>though.

[But Team America seems to be mainly a no-laugh zone and painfully USA All the Way. In addition to the NY Times and Washington Post reviews I posted before, the following from the Globe and Mail seems fair warning enough:]

... While the movie leaves the illusion that it ridicules all sides equally, this is not the case. Just to recount the targets of ridicule here: anyone or anything that can be considered gay, and foreigners of any kind. By the conclusion, Hollywood liberals who criticize their government's foreign policy are gleefully decapitated, dismembered and demolished. Right-wing apologists, never mind George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, are unscathed.

Team America: World Police is too low-down and dirty to be endorsed by any political group, but there's little doubt where Parker and Stone's sympathies lie: The movie's just a little bit too America F--k Yeah! for comfort.

<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041015/TEAM15/TPEntertainment/Film>

Carl



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